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f the massive bed, when a faint c

pen. I sat up, ev

t slanted through the high window, illum

sin, T

guards of a Dragon Lord's fortress. To trespass into the lord's private b

tively scrambled backward on the bed, pre

with a sickening combination of lust and greed. He crept towar

a waste for you to be a widow to a living corpse. Come wit

asn't just his own depravity;

voice low and trembling with ra

s dead man can't save you. Once I've had you, you'll be my

e covers and scrambled off the far side of t

mping around my ankle. I shrieked as I

His foul breath was hot on my face as he t

ht like a cornered cat, scratchi

him. He slapped me, hard. S

r and hit something cold and hard. It was the hilt of the massive swo

vy and ornate, its hilt

the hilt and pulled. It was incredibly heavy, but the wil

blindly, a clums

e tip of the blade sliced across his a

!" he howled, cl

most as tall as I was, the blade trembling violently from the weight. I w

But his greed and lust quickly won out. "You think you can e

word tip wobbled, dipping toward t

large, warm hand cove

ingers, steadying the heavy h

efore, suddenly felt as light as a feather. The wavering t

looked over

of golden eyes, deep and dark as a

He was

He looked at the man sitting up in the bed, at the point of the sword a

ance at him. His gaze

and raspy from disuse, he

ou all